Same.
On Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow understandably got emotional while having to report breaking news that Donald Trump‘s administration is sending migrant infants and toddlers to “tender age” shelters as a result of the “zero tolerance” policy.
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While reporting on the young children forcibly being ripped from their parents, the MSNBC news anchor struggled to say:
“This is incredible. Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children… To at least three… I think I’m going to have to hand this off. Sorry, that does it for us tonight. We’ll see you tomorrow.”
Ultimately, Rachel passed it off to her fellow broadcaster Lawrence O’Donnell.
Watch the tough moment (below):
Rachel Maddow chokes up and cries on air as she struggles to deliver news that migrant babies and toddlers have been sent to “tender age” shelters pic.twitter.com/O6crm8cvyR
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The journalist later took to Twitter with the script she intended to say, including a link to the AP story. She wrote:
Ugh, I’m sorry.
If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I’m on TV.
What I was trying to do — when I suddenly couldn’t say/do anything — was read this lede:
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
“Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
“Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the “tender age” shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
“Decades after the nation’s child welfare system ended the use of orphanages over concerns about the lasting trauma to children, the administration is standing up new institutions to hold Central American toddlers that the government separated from their parents…
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, “Toddlers are being detained.”
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— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
All from this Associated Press story that broke while I was on the air tonight, but which I was unable to read on the air:https://t.co/2VBLTVxvQq
Again, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 20, 2018
We’re all human. That’s how we should be treating each other, anyway.
[Image via MSNBC/Twitter.]
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